... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.